The Blues Brothers

Comedic violence in many scenes. A nun slaps the Blues Brothers repeatedly with a ruler due to their bad language, culminating in Jake falling down steep stairs while still in a too-small school desk. Over-the-top car chases, in a shopping mall, and, later, from a summer resort town in Wisconsin to the Loop in Chicago involving The Blues Brothers pursued by literally hundreds of police vehicles. A blind man who runs a music store fires a gun at a young boy attempting to steal a guitar. A country and western group who had a gig stolen from them by the Blues Brothers pursues them in their touring Winnebago and fires a rifle at the Blues Brothers' vehicle. Neo-Nazis also chase after the Blues Brothers and shoot at them. A woman jilted at the altar by one of the Blues Brothers follows them and detonates explosives, fires a rocket launcher, and shoots a machine gun at them, resulting in one instance in a building being destroyed.

While stuck at a gas station, Elwood Blues propositions an attractive English woman (Twiggy) to meet him at a motel at midnight. She is later shown waiting for him.

An older African-American man tells the Blues Brothers that if the orphanage closes, he will be "just another ["N" word] on the street." Use of "f--k" and its variations. "Bulls--t." "S--t." "Piss." "Damn." "Peckerhead." In a soul food diner off of Maxwell Street in Chicago, a waitress tells her husband working in the kitchen about the "honkies" at the counter and what they ordered.

Cigarette smoking. The bass player is always smoking a pipe. Whiskey drinking, shot drinking.

Parents need to know that The Blues Brothers is a classic 1980 comedy in which John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd play music-obsessed siblings trying to reunite their old band in order to save the Chicago orphanage where they grew up. There's frequent comedic violence, including some of the most ludicrous, over-the-top car chases ever put to film, as well as a jilted bride (played by Carrie Fisher) who detonates explosives, fires a rocket launcher, and shoots a machine gun at the Blues Brothers in order to get revenge. There is one use of the "N" word, occasional use of "f--k" and its variations, and other profanity throughout the movie. Characters smoke and drink. On the positive side, this movie features classic performances from so many of the legendary performers of jazz, blues, and rhythm and blues, including Cab Calloway, John Lee Hooker, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, James Brown, as well as the studio musicians backing up the Blues Brothers, legendary musicians in their own right.

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